Sentence examples for meager reserves from inspiring English sources

So many Afghans were rushing to exchange afghanis for dollars that the Afghan central bank, now that the country has such a thing, spent more than $1 million of its meager reserves to buy afghanis and try to stem the currency's collapse.

Once battle was joined, Eisenhower acted decisively, committing the two armored divisions in the 12th Army Group's reserve over Bradley's objection, along with his own meager reserves, two airborne divisions.

The country's meager oil reserves, a key source of revenue for the government, are also running dry.

Will FEMA reimburse the cost, or will the embattled utility be forced to assume the full cost of this boondoggle with its already meager cash reserve of $100 million?

The move is largely symbolic given that Vermont is thought to have relatively meager shale gas reserves, but a bill awaits the governor's signature.

The significance of coking coal in the metallurgical sector as well as the meager coking coal reserves across the globe increase the necessity to recover coking coal fines from the fine coking coal slurries generated from coal preparation and utilization activities.

Saleh seemed to view Al Qaeda as a bargaining chip, one that could be used to guarantee his own relevance as Yemen's meager oil and water reserves ran dry.

The terror of interminable days ahead loomed as a burden too great for my meager inventory of psychic reserves.

In a report, Moody's warned that German banks suffer from meager profits, rising risk and insufficient reserves to absorb losses.

North of Mongolia and of China's three northeastern provinces lies Russia's Far East region, a numbing vastness twice the size of Europe with a meager and shrinking population and large reserves of natural gas, oil, timber, diamonds and gold.

When China began opening its doors to the outside world in 1979, its official reserves stood at a meager $2.2 billion.